HOW TO: Write .img To SD Card

by Ninja UK
by Ninja UK

PC INSTRUCTIONS

So you’ve downloaded an .img for your Pi – now you need to put that .img on SD Card and boot it in your Pi…..

  1. Insert your SD card in to your usb card reader or SD Slot, then insert in to your PC
  2. Format the SD card to Fat32 using SDFormatter (https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ )
  3. Open Win32 Disk imager (https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/)
  4. Make sure you choose the correct drive letter of your SD card in win32 disk imager.
  5. Press the small icon next to drive letter and find  your .img file
  6. Then click Write. This can take a while to write to your SD

Once its wrote, put the Micro SD into your Pi and your image should boot up

APPLE MAC INSTRUCTIONS

If you have a MAC then you’ll need to grab Apple Pi Baker (https://www.tweaking4all.com/software/macosx-software/macosx-apple-pi-baker/) and follow the similar instructions on the site.

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